Show Instrument umen Boar Board d S Safe a f e el l T Than v h a n Instinct to Fl Flyer Fly C 1 I Extensive tests tea tes s have pro en th thin in 10 blind flying i instinct is the the- aVIators aVIator's aviator Thus This is rs because nature natu worst enemy to the tl has yet to bet bar reconciled straight line 9 the ground around or m mt when deprived of hIS h 1 tha t c a man en n n c of dirE in 1110 s in to circle Thus when the airman with hIS be bear bear- bea ings robbed lobbed byl byJ by fog s et or star storm relies on his in instinct rather than his h 1 instrument boa board he invariably m spit spi t td to hiss hi hl f death eath boar t When blind instinct is left to guide gulde events there here is bound to be 1 trouble fort for wg t we were vere born to I go around in 10 rings rings writes ichard Ca Caroll Car Car- Carroll Ct roll in 10 the Liberty la 1 Magazine In 1 1917 Professor Professor A A A of t the University University of Kansas zoologIcal laboratory conducted s some me perl e-perl- ments on stud students on a rice nee track at t Kno Tennessee Tennessee At the time e it was covered wit Ith snow ind nd the tracks of the students student were plain to fee ec ee They were ele shown show sho an object at a dt dl distance tan fe e then blin folded and toll tol to alk walker light to It i iTo am each To the professors professor's ors or's subject including himself walked i m spirals and in m nil all 11 directions direction Continuing his e Pro Pro- Professor fessor lessor s came t td to the conch conci condu- condu concision stun sion that no moving ward foi fOl organ organ- organIsm organism ism has set Jet ct been found that does not nc move in 10 somei kind of spiral path pat path when there are no orienting sen- sen senses ser se ses suh such ash as sight to touch h c-h or to guide Ulde it I I Many 1 avi aviators tors reporting on thi thIS tendency to spiral admit that if strIct attention is p lid to the hors horI horI- horIzon zon in 10 their s ip that ships ships that is to th the instrument board hoard with Ith its turn and an bank indicator r its com compass its aI- aI al altimeter and othel devices to tAke tak the place of Tans Tan's i mans man's ians ian's eyes his touch hl hi se see s n c e 01 or sense of balance balance- the pilot will to grief I The ty Were I he-I e is to mail ma c Veterans ar arc often the w st offenders When 13 e ship goes m in a spin in rn fog and th tl the pilot does oes not n know how much alt rude tude he has nJ t takes a lot of tram train mg ng and new nerv nervi for him to go against again his us highly senses ant and place blind fa faIth fajth th in to instruments tell him to d what hat he instinctively believes will hill ill him In that fig t between en a few gadgets gadgets ets on the i instrument strument board and nn an a c experienced ed riots riot's common sense sens the he latter is is- iso o 0 ten the winner and the pIlot plot crashes The instruments are ar always lavas rights right's right f If the human element m n aviation tf t the e c pilot will only realize that hat this is world orId and that thaman's tans mans fight against gamst nature is for fo straight line lines and that his ments are JUf hi ii weapons for that fight ho he o fly safely fiely elY enough in m top fog fo alys al- al al ys d he will believe hl his hib m- m in |